Selected Military Service Records Relating to Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.

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Selected Military Service Records Relating to Mary Edwards Walker, M.D.

Selected Records relating to the military service during the Civil War of Mary Edwards Walker, M. D. including her medical officer personnel file, a consolidated file of letters received by the Volunteer Service Branch of the Adjutant General's Office (W 2068 VS 1863), the transcripts of the 1977 proceedings of the United States Army Board for the Correction of Military Records, and her pension application case file (SC 142 715).

35mm duplicate positive microfilm. 1 roll.

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United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Military Service Branch.

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Dr. Walker is the only woman to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. From the description of Selected Military Service Records Relating to Mary Edwards Walker, M.D. (National Archives Library). WorldCat record id: 17269947 ...

Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919

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Mary Edwards Walker was a Civil War physician, suffragist, and dress reformer. From the description of Postcard, 1888. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007785 Suffragette and pioneer female surgeon. From the description of Papers, 1885-1898, [Washington, D.C.] (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35663594 Dr. Mary Edward Walker was a resident of Oswego Town, New York and is remembered as the first women to publicly wear pants. Her attire wa...